from iphone camera half aworld away. the assault in yemen stoking fears of a wider middle east war pending the response that we await still at this hour. a big morning, big day. see what happens throughout the day. let s start here at 9:00 in new york. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home and. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. some people wondered if the biden administration would ever be willing to do. the u.s. carried out strikes in coordination with the united kingdom scorching more than 60 houthi targets. bill: part of tehran s response to the israeli war on hamas. according to general jack keane earlier today he says it is time to go after iran directly. the center of gravity for the aggression in the middle east that we re experiencing is iran. we have said this time and time and time again. and to deter the proxies themselves by hitting them will not be sufficient. we have got to go after iran. dana: all this unfolding while the head of
it s the first moment where james and elizabeth are given a little window into how their father sees this thing. and they could either just turn their back on the business and essentially wave the white flag. or they can try to double down and prove themselves to their father. and they choose the latter. it s october 2001, and roger ailes is at an annual dinner attended by all the new york politicians. the al smith dinner. i trust you all enjoyed your meal. this is one of the big events in new york city politics. i certainly enjoyed my meal. roger ailes has been the architect of fox news. one of very few people who rupert really, really trusts and whom rupert really needs. as the evening s winding down, roger hears from giuliani s office. the news corporation building has been attacked. at this point, roger s been on edge for over a month. today, we may stare in the face of evil. when the country was attacked on 9/11, it s almost as if the attack was on roger
sole owner of 20th century fox. wasn t one of his children to succeed him, but he doesn t say when, who and how. it s going to have to be fought out between them. two minutes to the official start of the race. there are the boats. the race in australia, it s a big deal. it s a kind of their super bowl. lachlan had done a lot of sailing and he eagerly signed up for the 98 race. 54th race. he sailed onboard the boat sayonara. up on the high side there, getting out. it was a beautiful day. and not long after the race began there was a line of clouds. like a black wall. there were wind gusts of close to 100 miles per hour. and the waves were enormous. is there anything you fear in life? you always worry, i think, about the unexpected that could happen. it could bring all this tumbling down. the boats would head into the waves and they d stort of climb up, and then they d go launching off the top of the wave and hurtling down. certainly one has to remain
tennessee congressman mark green to weigh in with us in just a moment where because of a dramatic spike in migrant encounters along the southern border in august paper cbp revealed over 2 million migrants cross from mexico into the u.s. without any vetting this fiscal year whatsoever. that s a record to quit comes as the biden administration continues to claim that the border is secure. plus and nuns i spent nearly 23 years and present back on a baltimore judge has released him back of his 1999 murder conviction ignited the nation thanks to the groundbreaking podcast called serial. we got our legal eagles to bet on a new twist on the street street crime murder mystery because we begin tonight with another white house walked back kevin corke has an inside look at what s going on behind the scene is over at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. hi, given. let s be honest, we ve seen this play before, haven t we? the president or the vice president goes out, does a sitdown interview a
who was going to succeed rupert murdoch? lachlan, elizabeth, and james all have their own places in the murdoch empire. lachlan is the one who is closest to the seat of power. but he finds himself in the middle of this shark tank. he chastises roger ailes. rupert completely sides with ailes. elizabeth, as a programmer, has something close to rupert murdoch s own eye for the new and the fresh, but she s never going to get the top job with her father. she decides she has to get out. she sends him a fax. they re supposed to have an heir and a spare. james is the spare. but james proves himself to be as good as his father at putting profit before principle. and it s very successful . james murdoch is now at the top of the company, is almost certain to succeed his father, and he s doing tremendously. he goes from a junior member of the family to a successful executive at newscorp, to the ceo of sky, to now being in charge of news international, their global division.